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HIV/ Aids has enough experts," the Salvation Army told BBC
journalist Brook as it sent him on this task. "We just want someone to
go and see and find the stories." So he sets out, with two young
children in tow, to the scummiest parts of India, Africa and China. And
tell them he does, with a light, deft touch. Without a trace of mawkishness
or sentimentality, Brook sets it out straight - most movingly when his
six-year-old daughter asks him, "What is a prostitute?" or his son
wants to know why people commit genocide. "Remember to write my name
somewhere," a dying man asks him. This he does, with heartbreaking
simplicity.
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This book presents an extraordinary account of a nine-month
journey made by the author and his family into some of the World's HIV/AIDS
epicentres. Sent by the Salvation Army to bear witness to the work they
were doing in response to the pandemic, Rhidian Brook, his wife and two
children, follow a trail of devastation through communities still shattered
and being broken by this disease: truck stop sex workers in Kenya, victims
of rape in Rwanda, child-headed families in Soweto, children of prostitutes
in India, farmers who sold blood for money in China. It is a remarkable
journey among the infected and the affected through a world that, despite
seeming on the brink of collapse, is being held together, not by power,
politics, guns and money; but by small acts of kindness performed by unsung
people choosing to live in hope.
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HIV/ Aids has enough experts," the Salvation Army told BBC
journalist Brook as it sent him on this task. "We just want someone to
go and see and find the stories." So he sets out, with two young
children in tow, to the scummiest parts of India, Africa and China. And
tell them he does, with a light, deft touch. Without a trace of mawkishness
or sentimentality, Brook sets it out straight - most movingly when his
six-year-old daughter asks him, "What is a prostitute?" or his son
wants to know why people commit genocide. "Remember to write my name
somewhere," a dying man asks him. This he does, with heartbreaking
simplicity.
Book Description
This book presents an extraordinary account of a nine-month
journey made by the author and his family into some of the World's HIV/AIDS
epicentres. Sent by the Salvation Army to bear witness to the work they
were doing in response to the pandemic, Rhidian Brook, his wife and two
children, follow a trail of devastation through communities still shattered
and being broken by this disease: truck stop sex workers in Kenya, victims
of rape in Rwanda, child-headed families in Soweto, children of prostitutes
in India, farmers who sold blood for money in China. It is a remarkable
journey among the infected and the affected through a world that, despite
seeming on the brink of collapse, is being held together, not by power,
politics, guns and money; but by small acts of kindness performed by unsung
people choosing to live in hope.
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